Sentences with phrase «n't allegorical»

The films Mamet has directed range from sophomoric (House of Games) to grating (State and Main) to just incompetent (Heist), though Spartan reminds the most of one he only wrote: the wilderness howler The Edge, with its machismo over-examined and placed in a context that isn't allegorical as it must be, but hardboiled realism as it can't be.

But I mean that in a myth the elements have meaning (and are not allegorical!).

Her works are not allegorical (one fact points to another) or moral (what should be done).

I think the sincerity is where the emotional power lies because your work is not allegorical.

Not exact matches

Truth was in the allegorical understanding, not the literal words.

If Jesus existed (and that is not a given since his name means «salvation,» he's probably an allegorical character), and if the stories about his visit to Jerusalem early in the reign of Pontius Pilate are true, he died because he was an anti-Roman insurgent, probably involved in a Zealot uprising over the use of the Temple treasury to finance the construction of an aqueduct.

I try not to worry what other people think about eternal souls or allegorical references in literature.

If a Bible verse (or discovery) is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical or metaphorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is an ancient cultural anomaly; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.

If a Bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either; (i) taken out of context; (ii) symbolic, allegorical or otherwise means something other than it says; (iii) referring to another verse somewhere else that rectifies the error; (iv) a translation or copyist's error; (v) a mystery of God not discernible by we mere humans; or (vi) just plain magic.

@Jesus Please ensure you are not mistaking YEC, which is of fairly recent Protestant vintage, with the position of the RCC which publicly announced decades (in some cases more than a century ago) that many of the stories in are allegorical.

If you want to say that these stories are allegorical and speak to the relationship between man and his god, that's one thing — and I wouldn't argue.

The allegorical Abraham, Muhammed or Jesus does not exist to people of other religious paths.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernable by humans; or is just magic.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is an ancient cultural anomaly; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.)

There are even early church fathers that have influenced what we believe today who did not believe Adam and Eve were literal people, but allegorical symbols of the sinfulness of all humanity.

We find that what we can not do through human efforts, can be done by Christ, if we're humble enough to accept it (Remember, the — I believe allegorical — story of the «The Fall» in Genesis was about mankind wanting to do things on its own and be «like God»).

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

It is a good rule that in trying to understand the Bible one should not have recourse to a figurative or allegorical explanation of any passage (outside those poetical and prophetical compositions which obviously have a symbolic intention) without first settling conclusions with the straightforward meaning, even if it seems offensive; for the offence may set up that tension in the mind through which we often reach the truth.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernable by humans; or is just plain magic.

the bible = fiction, not history yahweh, jesus, judas, simon, miriam = allegorical characters (names have symbolic meaning, coincidence?)

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.»

Such an allegorical reading is not without its historical precedent.

I see God as the Patron, and the issue of talents as an allegorical way of expressing activity for the Kingdom of God using familiar social realities (but in keeping with Mark 4:10 - 12, 24 and Matthew 13:11 - 16, the peasants may have taken it too literally and thus missed the whole point — thinking that the unprofitable servant is the hero when he's really not).

Scriptural norms, principles and visions of life are often articulated in highly poetic, paradigmatic, allegorical, even cryptic language that does not lend itself to easy application.

; the healing of the blind man was the release of the disciples from «Jewish blindness»; names like Jaïrus and Bartimaeus contained subtle allegorical meanings; the Gerasene demoniac symbolized idolatrous heathenism; the rending of the temple veil meant the end of Judaism; the darkness at the Crucifixion symbolized the darkness of men's minds apart from Christ; the healing of the deaf mute was the symbol of conversion — either of Jews or Gentiles, it was not certain which!

It can not come from an obscurantist who behaves as though nothing had happened and is content to repeat the shibboleths of a short - circuited dogmatism, or to take over the exegesis of Luther naïvely and uncritically, to say nothing of the allegorical interpretations of the Rabbis.

I'm not saying Jesus was a white European, but those descriptions in Revelations are allegorical.

No, do not do an exhaustive list of what you believe is real and what is allegorical.

- If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.

In 2001, U2 had one of the top albums of the year (All That You Can't Leave Behind) with an allegorical, 11 - song tribute to a lover (or, more likely, mother figure) identified as «Grace»: «She takes the blame, she covers the shame, she travels outside of karma.»

discarding the portions of religious texts as allegorical that do not match their knowledge.

This allegorical interpretation, however, is not necessary to the understanding of the book and has been almost universally given up by scholars.

Of course, whether he intended to do so or not, the story is clearly allegorical.

Also Palestinian Judaism did not avail itself of an allegorical interpretation of the mass of incomprehensible and impracticable commands in order to find in them an intelligible moral meaning This method was used only in Hellenistic Judaism under the influence of Greek thinking, as it was later in the Christian church, when it needed to come to terms with the Old Testament laws.

No doubt I've not read all your posts so I don't know to which sect you adhere, but how do you * know * which parts of the Bible are allegorical, and which parts should be taken literally?

Indeed, when St. Paul does happen to mention a relevant text from the Hebrew Scriptures — «You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain» (Deut 25:4)-- he does so simply to apply it by a kind of allegorical interpretation to the economic support of those who preach the gospel.

The vast majority of today's Christians would do well in analyzing the Bible as it is meant to be, which is inerrant in spiritual truth, but not everyone understands it is not all literal truth, a good amount of it is symbolic and allegorical, which is still inerrant spiritual truth.

This is one of the few parables that are almost, if not quite, allegorical, and so is especially liable to erroneous and fanciful interpretations.

You just can't seem to get your head around the idea that much of the Bible is allegorical — especially Genesis!

We do not for a moment mean to suggest that Gen. 12 - 50 was created out of whole cloth as an allegorical, fictional, personalized «history» of Israel....

The bible is not factual, it is allegorical.

For the better part of nineteen centuries, the historic churches, wittingly or unwittingly, have contributed greatly to the global spread of anti-Semitism by their excessively allegorical interpretation of most if not all favorable scriptural references to the Jews.

Mr. Liben's charge that «excessively allegorical interpretation» has «greatly» contributed to anti-Semitism carries implications that I am quite sure he would not wish to embrace.

So, let us get on with the Women's Equality Agenda; just not in the NYS Assembly, where the membership surely understands Kristen Gillibrand's allegorical «slap in the a $ $» comment.

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

While sophisticated technologies like this might let us see nature, observe the stars, and even watch the news more clearly, we mustn't let them deprive us of the icons and metaphors we use to describe the things in our lives that are less tangible and more allegorical, less a reality and more a model.

Still, it was a very effective movie, and was successful at making me think, so I still would give it a «thumbs up», though I think the critics are wetting themselves over it mainly because it's «allegorical» (which is probably a pleasant change from all the mindless explosions we've had to deal with this summer) but I don't really like allegory.

But unlike the rigorous skepticism of films like Blood Simple, Fargo, and Burn After Reading, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore uses its allegorical narrative to further a simplistic political message meant to give it an aura of timely social commentary.

This is not only an allegorical key to the character of this self - described «man of science» but a key to Mann's portrayal of him, which is partly chemical and partly alchemical, a mix of scientific scrutiny and sheer sorcery.

The allegorical stories that comprise the movie's fantasy world are also laid on a bit thick, and it doesn't do enough with its characters to maximize the emotional payoff.